"You must have seen more of him over the last five days than you have over the last five years... Your wives must be beginning to wonder if something is going on" Michael Crick to Tony Blair on Newsnight, BBC2

"They are never apart these days. If this continues, we might as well just call them Tony Brown and be done with it" Anne Treneman, sketchwriter, the Times

"Tied together, they look like the spoof Seventies runners in the 118 118 ads" Vicki Wood

"Tony Blair to Gordon Brown clutching a cup of tea: 'What are you doing with a mug, Gordon?' Gordon Brown: 'Don't be so hard on yourself'" Tony and Gordon picture story, the Daily Mail.

"They might like to pretend they're the dynamic duo. But they're actually like Del Boy and Rodney togged up as Batman and Robin, running away from a broken-down Reliant - or, in their case, an unsold Rover 75" Richard Littlejohn, the Sun.

"Blair is clinging to Gordon like a drowning man to driftwood" Richard Littlejohn, the Sun.

"Brown is so desperate to become prime minister that he'll swallow all pride and principle to go along with this ludicrous charade. What we're actually witnessing, regardless of the outcome of the election, is the beginning of the end of their political careers" Richard Littlejohn, the Sun

CAUGHT OUT

Ed Matts, Conservative candidate for Dorset South, who reused a photograph at a rally protesting against the deportation of the Kachepa family in a campaign leaflet but airbrushed out a placard featuring a photo of the family to replace it with a "controlled immigration" banner for the election campaign. Ann Widdecombe, who stood beside him at the rally, has had her placard changed to suit the Tory manifesto. Before it read: "Let Them Stay". Now it says "Not Chaos & Inhumanity". The Guardian and the Times

FAIR AND BALANCED REPORTING

"Michael Howard was yesterday branded a 'fraud' as he launched the Tory party's manifesto" The Daily Mirror.

Front page report claiming Labour has switched from claiming that Conservatives want to slash spending to saying that they will now spend more than Labour.The Daily Telegraph.

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT

"Just think how you would feel if you don't vote and watch Michael Howard walking into Downing Street the next day. You'd feel like I would have done if Bayern Munich had held on and the Champions League trophy went to Germany and not Manchester. We mustn't let it happen" Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United manager

ON TORY TAX CUTS

"Subtract those elusive tax cuts from their platform and what mostly remains of the demarcation line between today's Tories and Blairism is an unsettling tone that presupposes the superiority of Britishness and exalts 'the British dream'"Leader, the Independent.

ON TORY IMMIGRATION POLICY

"These are weasel words for this country in this day and age. They are not overtly xenophobic, but they have a certain edge that is distastefully compatible with the tough pledges for quotas on immigration and asylum intended to remedy a 'system in chaos' and 'borders out of control'. This campaign is already turning nasty"Leader on the Conservative manifesto, the Independent.

THE TORY MANIFESTO - IT'S BRILLIANT, NO IT'S NOT

"The Conservative manifesto is a thing of punchlines, not programmes" Martin Kettle, the Guardian

"There is little thinking of the role of the state that occurred under Mrs Thatcher in the late 1970s. A dog-whistle election campaign is not the same as a strategy for transforming Britain" Peter Riddell, political commentator, the Times.

LUCKY CHARM OF THE CAMPAIGN

The Daily Mail has discovered a large gold cufflink Michael Howard has worn every day for the last seven days was given to him by Cheshire pensioner Margaret Dixon, who famously had a shoulder operation cancelled seven times.